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Emergency medical services re-sponse times will be up to five minutes faster with a new pro-gram that puts paramedics on motorcycles.

The new pilot program uses medically equipped motorcycles along Interstate Highway 35. The bikes have been used in the past for special events, but first be-came available to patrols on I-35 two weeks ago. The bikes can nav-

igate through congested traffic much better than an ambulance, said EMS spokesman Warren Hassinger.

“Motorcycles give us better ac-cess during the gridlock times of early morning and late evening,” Hassinger said. “A lot of these car crashes don’t result in any inju-ries at all, a lot of it is just free-ing up resources and decreasing response times.”

When a 911 call is placed for a traffic accident an ambulance is dispatched to the site, but a patrol-

ling motorcycle may be closer to the crash to give faster treatment.

Once there, the motorcycle para-medic can give immediate care to the patient and determine the se-verity of the injuries. They can call off the ambulance if it is only a mi-nor accident so that ambulances can be available for a more serious call that may require patient trans-port, said Captain Keith Noble.

“There is always an ambulance on the way behind us; we get dis-

UT researchers have announced a partnership with the world’s larg-est hydroelectric producer to pat-ent a revolutionary rechargeable battery designed at the University.

E ng i n e e r i n g professor John Goodenough used an innovative com-bination of mate-rials to create the lithium ion battery, which will be pro-duced by Canadi-an-based company Hydro-Québec for use in commercial products around the world.

Goodenough said he researched a variety of cathode materials to design re-chargeable batteries that were sig-nificantly lighter and longer last-ing than alternatives. He said his batteries were also safer for con-sumer use and more environ-mentally friendly.

“This is the type of battery that gets put into things such as your

cell phone, your laptop or your iPod,” Goodenough said. “We are also working on expanding it for use in hybrid electric cars.”

Goodenough has worked with Hydro-Québec since 1996 to devel-op the batteries. He said the part-

nership for pat-ents would allow the company to mass-produce the key materials for the batteries and sell them to man-ufacturers to pro-pel the commer-cialization process for his design.

“This is impor-tant for the wire-less revolution,” G o o d e n o u g h said. “We’ve done a variety of things

with it, and I’ve been very happy with my relationship with Hydro-Québec. They’ve been very helpful on furthering the commercializa-tion of our development.”

Goodenough said the partner-ship is an example of important and profitable developments that

The murals of iconic musicians at the inter-section of 24th and Guadalupe streets will be preserved with the opening of four new busi-nesses at the location.

The original artist Federico Archuleta said he was able to preserve and touch up the paintings this weekend thanks to the support of the man-ager at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf that will be opening in the space. He started stenciling in 2003. That same year, he drew the mural when

Tower Records owned the building, just three months before the music store went out of busi-ness and was replaced by the bookstore Intellec-tual Property.

Archuleta said he painted the murals as a tribute to some of his favorite artists and in-cluded portraits of music greats such as Johnny Cash, The Clash and Bob Dylan.

“I tried to tip my hat to a variety of artists, including blues, rock and country,” Archu-leta said. “Right before Intellectual Property

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Above, Federico Archuleta holds a cardboard stencil of Buddy Holly in his garage studio in East Austin. Archuleta, whose work can be found on walls across the city, was permitted by the new owners of the old Tower Records building on the corner of 24th and Guadalupe streets to touch up his original murals. Below, The Cely-Martinez family walks past Archuleta’s mural of Johnny Cash on their way to Tyler’s on Sunday.

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opened, I took it upon myself to redo the stencils in different col-ors, and that has been the version that’s been around for the past few years.”

Archuleta said he was pleased to see the artwork has remained in-tact throughout the years and be-come an iconic image in the cam-pus community.

“The response of the public has been very sup-portive, and it’s inspired me to continue main-taining the mu-rals,” he said. “These have re-ally become the ground zero for this type of art, and people do consider it a land-mark of sorts.”

Archuleta said growing up near the border in El Paso influenced his artistic style, a blend of Mex-ican and American pop culture. He has lived in Austin for 10 years and said people are receptive to public art such as his.

“Whether the art stands the test of time remains to be seen,” Archuleta said. “You do your la-bor of love and you hope some-body cares enough to value it and say it is part of the city’s heritage and should be preserved.”

He said he strives to create art that is culturally meaning-ful and adds visual interest to

his surroundings.“If it’s not done well, people

will just see it as graffiti,” Archu-leta said. “I’m more than glad to be able to do the art a third time around so a new generation of students can experience it.”

Preserving art around the city is an important part of maintain-

ing Austin’s in-dividuality, ac-counting senior Brittney Rodri-guez said.

“A lot of the art around cam-pus buildings and things that are on the drag are most mem-orable to me be-cause I see them every day,” Ro-dr iguez said . “Austin is known

for its creativity in all forms of art and I think keeping these murals will help preserve the city’s char-acteristic of being artistic.”

Communication sciences and disorders senior Behnaz Abolmaa-li said she hopes to see the culture of public art continue to thrive in the Central Austin area to differ-entiate it from more traditional suburban neighborhoods.

“I’ve lived in Austin my whole life, and these pieces of art are Austin fixtures,” Abolmaali said. “I would be glad to see the paintings be touched up and stick around for more years to come.”

can result from supporting long-term research projects at the University.

“I think it’s important that funda-mental research continue and that people who do that work have an eye to what is interesting for science, but also what is important for the com-mercial world,” Goodenough said. “That is part of our responsibility to society.”

Juan Sanchez, the University’s vice president of research, said in a press release that the partnership showed the value of prioritizing research ini-tiatives at the University.

“This agreement is indicative of the value of university research and will accelerate the commercialization of a key technology with a wide range of applications in the energy sector,” Sanchez said. “We are pleased that a company with the stature of Hydro-Québec is committed to the advance-ment of UT inventions.”

Recent UT sociology graduate Zehra Zaid said it is important to continue initiatives such as this be-cause they increase the prestige of the University.

“If we partner with major compa-nies, that attracts more people to ap-ply to the school,” Zaid said. “If we were to limit these opportunities, then UT wouldn’t be accredited for its innovation.”

patched at the same time and normally we get there first if we’re out and about already,” No-ble said.

The motorcycles are equipped with anything a paramedic would need to treat any injury or illness for up to 15 minutes, said para-medic Juan Hinojosa.

“The way we geared it up was to be able to do advanced life support care — anything from a sprained ankle to a cardiac ar-rest,” Hinojosa said.

Nine paramedics took a pri-vate advanced motorcycle course and a modified version of the

police department’s motorcycle training to learn maneuverabili-ty on the bikes.

The program is in its infancy now, with three operable bikes and nine trained paramedics who can use them. The new pro-gram may take some getting used to for both paramedics and driv-ers on I-35, officials said.

“A lot of times [the public] sees us come responding with lights and sirens, and right away they think we’re the police, since they’re not used to seeing para-medics on motorcycles,” Hinojo-sa said.

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Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and House Speaker Joe Straus, R-San Antonio, created the Texas Joint Committee for Higher Educa-tion Governance, Excellence and Transparency to address the con-troversy, discuss higher education policy decisions transparently and to protect the excellence and high quality of Texas universities.

Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Lare-do, UT alumna and co-committee chairwoman of the Higher Educa-tion Committee told the Texan in June that members would examine the direction of the state funding for higher education in Texas and will try to keep funding research at the University level.

“The problem with what [Per-ry and Sandefer] were trying to do was the process in which they were trying to do it,” Zaffirini said. “They were trying to impact high-er education behind closed doors, but change must be made as a re-sult of thoughtful collaboration.”

Pres. Barack ObamaPres. Barack Obama has pro-

posed various higher education issues to be addressed through-out his presidency, and has made a goal for the U.S. to have the high-est proportion of students grad-uating from college in the world by 2020.

Critics claim Obama’s goal is un-realistic. Justin Hamilton, spokes-

man for U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, said in a statement that the administration has a tre-mendous amount of work ahead of them to achieve the 2020 goal.

Obama spoke at UT last fall and said higher education was an issue he planned to treat as an econom-ic stimulus because nearly eight in 10 new jobs will require workforce training or a higher education by the end of this decade.

“It’s an economic issue when the unemployment rate for folks who’ve never gone to college is al-most double what it is for those who have gone to college,” Obama said in the speech. “Education is an economic issue when we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that countries that out-educate us today, they will out-compete us tomorrow.”

In order to achieve the goal, Obama originally planned to in-vest $12 billion into communi-ty colleges, but the money was mostly siphoned off to get the na-tional health care bill passed, re-taining $2 billion pledged for ca-reer training programs at colleges and universities.

Obama said all Americans should prepare themselves effec-tively to get a job by enrolling in at least one year of higher educa-tion or job training. Obama still hopes to increase higher educa-tion access and success by restruc-turing expanding college finan-cial aid, while making federal pro-grams simpler and more effective for students.

Pres. George W. BushAlthough Bush was considered

the Education President, his ef-forts in helping higher education develop were limited after focus-

ing most of his energy on improv-ing K-12 education with his No Child Left Behind Act.

Bush never made higher educa-tion a significant part of his budget, but the keynote for Bush’s higher education agenda was reforming Pell Grants to address the growing number of independent students who depend on need-based fund-ing for higher education.

In 2005, Bush’s Secretary of Ed-ucation Margaret Spellings an-nounced the formation of one of Bush’s biggest higher education initiatives, the Commission on the Future of Higher Education.

The commission was formed to act as a natural extension of the No Child Left Behind program, with the goal of preparing high school students for post-second-ary schooling and for the twenty-first century workplace.

CARACAS, Venezuela — In his monthlong fight against can-cer, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has placed utmost impor-tance on secrecy, carefully offering only scraps of information about his condition.

Now, as he begins planned che-motherapy in Cuba, Chavez ap-pears to have found the perfect place where he can tightly guard details of his illness and keep the prying eyes of the news media far away.

The Venezuelan leader first un-derwent surgery in the island na-tion on June 20 to remove a can-cerous tumor from his pelvic region. He re-turned Saturday night, saying he would be start-ing a “second phase of treat-ment.”

Typical of the cone of silence Chavez has low-ered over his he a l t h prob -lems, he hasn’t said how long the chemother-apy is likely to last, and there was no imme-diate confirma-tion from either Cuba or Venezuela that the treat-ments had in fact begun.

Chavez, 56, had said he would begin the treatments in Havana on Sunday to ensure cancer cells don’t reappear. He has also said he has been open about the details of his medical condition.

Maria Teresa Romero, professor of international studies at the Cen-tral University of Venezuela, said controlling information about his illness is important for Chavez to maintain both his hold on power and an image of strength at home.

“The secrecy, the trust is as-sured [in Cuba],” she said, “which is something that wouldn’t be as-sured if he were treated in Brazil, for example, or here in Venezuela. It would be much more difficult to keep secret everything they are go-ing to do him.”

Paul Webster Hare, a former British ambassador to Cuba from 2001 to 2004, said Chavez is like-

ly receiving the same sort of pro-tections and accommodations that ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro himself would expect. Hare was also the deputy head of mission for the British Diplomatic Service in Venezuela from 1994 to 1997.

“Everything there will be ar-ranged as if a member of the Cas-tro family were being treated — strict secrecy, encrypted commu-nication with Venezuela, trans-port, etcetera, just as if a favorite son had returned,” Hare said.

“Just as there is no accountabil-ity for the subsidies that Venezue-la provides Cuba, the political re-lationship is based on shared com-mitments and understandings be-tween the leaders that are never

subjected to insti-tutional scrutiny.”

On top of that, Hare said, “non-Cuban specialists could be more eas-ily flown in to Ha-vana than in the countries with a free and inquiring media.”

W h e n F i d e l Castro himself was gravely ill in 2006, a Spanish surgeon, not a Cuban, treat-ed him.

One of the few m e s s a g e s t h a t e m e r g e d f r o m Chavez by ear-ly afternoon Sun-

day came via his Twitter account, where one of three notes offered congratulations for the start of the ALBA Games in Venezuela, an athletic competition involving countries in the left-leaning Boli-varian Alliance bloc.

“From my trench, battling for life, I congratulate the entire home-

land for the marvelous inaugura-tion of the ALBA Games! We will live!” the message said.

Chavez has been treated by a team of Cuban and Venezuelan doctors since doctors removed a cancerous tumor that Chavez said was the size of a baseball. He hasn’t said what type of cancer he was di-agnosed with nor specified where exactly it was located, saying only that it was in his pelvic region.

Government officials have de-ferred to Chavez to provide the information he chooses about his prognosis, while opposi-tion leaders have demanded that the president come clean about what exactly his medical condi-tion is. Three days before he left for Cuba, Chavez acknowledged for the first time that he expect-ed to undergo chemotherapy or radiation treatment.

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Astronauts on NASA’s last flightready supplies for arrival home

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The astronauts making NASA’s last shut-tle flight gave up their off-duty time Sunday and finished packing up their gigantic suitcase for the ride home.

The 10 space travelers cheered as they put the final items in Raffaello, the Italian-made cargo canister that’s the size of a bus.

More than 5,600 pounds of old space station equipment, packing foam and other trash will return to Earth this week inside Raffaello.

“We’re full,” reported astro-naut Sandra Magnus. “Everybody pitched in.”

The compartment will be moved from the International Space Station back onto space shuttle Atlantis ear-ly Monday.

Atlantis will undock from the space station Tuesday, after a visit of more than a week, and aim for a Thursday landing back in Florida to end 30 years of shuttle flight.

Mission Control gave the four shuttle astronauts some time off Sun-day to relax before heading home, but they spent it packing.

Now that most of the work is be-hind, the realization that this is the last shuttle flight is starting to sink in, said flight director Chris Edelen. He said he had a dream the night before.

“In my dream, when I woke up, I realized, ‘Hey, I really do need to sa-vor these moments,’ “ he told report-ers, “because this likely will be the last time we ever see a big, winged vehicle like that docked to the space station.”

NASA is retiring its three space shuttles, sending them to museums, so it can work on sending astronauts beyond low-Earth orbit. The goals set forth by the Obama administration: an asteroid by 2025 and Mars by the mid-2030s.

— The Associated Press

Ariana Cubillos | Associated Press

Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez kisses a flag after greeting sup-porters in Venezuela in early July. While recovering from surgery, Chavez returned to his country from Cuba on Monday morning.

Chavez conceals treatment in CubaVoters’ worries rise as debt ceiling talksheat up in Congress

Susan Walsh | Associated Press

Republican presidential candidate, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., speaks with Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa., right, about the debt ceiling during a Capitol Hill news conference Wednesday.

NEWS BRIEFLY

ATLANTA — For Rep. Tim Scott the debt ceiling is not only the top issue voters in his South Caroli-na district want to talk about these days, it seems to be the only issue.

The office of the freshman Re-publican has been logging dozens of calls and emails every day about the debt ceiling, and it’s the No. 1 topic of discussion at town hall-style meetings with voters.

“Tons of phone calls, lots of emails, and the closer we get to Aug. 2, the more we’re hearing,” Scott said.

With the deadline looming to raise the $14.3 trillion debt ceil-ing, voters are tuning in, worried by the prospect of a financial melt-down if the nation defaults and concerned that elected officials in Washington are playing poli-tics with an issue that could have far-reaching consequences.

If the United States falls into default, the result could be high-er interest rates on mortgages, car loans and credit cards as well as a stop to Social Security checks for the elderly.

In its simplest form, the debt ceiling fight crystallizes party or-thodoxy: Republicans staking out a hard line against raising taxes and Democrats standing firm against deep cuts to government services.

President Barack Obama sup-ports a blend of spending cuts and

tax increases, a position that has backing of 69 percent of Ameri-cans, according to a recent Gal-lup poll.

A poll from the Pew Research Center found that among inde-pendent voters’ — coveted by both political parties — concern has shifted from fear that raising the debt ceiling would increase government spending to worry about the impact of the failure to raise the debt ceiling,

Two months ago Pew found that independents, by 49 percent to 34 percent margin, were more con-cerned that raising the debt ceiling would lead to higher government spending, as opposed to chiefly fearing the harmful effects of keep-ing the ceiling unchanged. This month, independents split evenly on the question.

Still, some lawmakers say they are hearing the most from their party’s base, those who hold en-trenched positions and urge their representatives not to yield.

“Don’t bend, stay the course, stand firm,” Rep. Tom Price said in summing up the feedback from constituents in his heavily Republi-can district north of Atlanta.

But Rep. John Lewis, an Atlan-ta Democrat, said he’s also hearing from constituents, and it’s a com-pletely different message.

“They are telling me protect Medicare, protect Social Securi-ty, protect those that are less fortu-nate,” Lewis said.

“ “The secrecy, the trust is assured which

is something that wouldn’t be assured if

he were treated in Brazil.

— Maria Teresa Romero, professor of international studies at the Central

University of Venezuela.

By Ian JamesThe Associated Press

By Shannon McCaffreyThe Associated Press

On July 20, Texas is scheduled to carry out the death penalty against Mark Stroman. One of his victims, Bangla-deshi immigrant Rais Bhuiyan, has gar-nered international headlines by calling for Stroman’s life to be spared. Bhuiyan’s campaign colors my own ethnic identity, and I also plead Gov. Rick Perry to grant Stroman clemency.

Shortly a� er the 9/11 attacks, Stro-man, a meth addict and Aryan Brother-hood member, wanted to enact revenge against people of Middle Eastern descent. In shooting sprees across the Dallas area, Stroman murdered two immigrant gas station workers, one Indian and the other Pakistani. He also shot Bhuiyan at a Texaco gas station ten days a� er 9/11, leaving the victim with injuries that led to the loss of his le� eye and 39 pieces of metal embed-ded in his head.

At his trial in 2002 then 22 year-old Stroman remained de� ant and unrepentant for his crimes. He claimed his murderous rampage was fueled by the loss of his half sister in the World Trade Center collapse — a claim investigators could not con� rm. He made an obscene hand gesture in the courtroom at Bhuiyan’s family. He boasted of killing “local Arab Americans, or what-ever you want to call them.”

He was sentenced to die by lethal injec-tion by the state of Texas.

I felt struck by Bhuiyan’s story because it encapsulates the pain and idealism so fa-miliar to Bengali immigrants in America. As a one-year-old baby, I moved with my

family to Texas from Bangladesh. While some Bengali immigrants from India and Bangladesh can comfortably settle into white-collar occupations, many others are relegated to dangerous, arduous jobs such as taxicab drivers and gas station clerks.

Like Bhuiyan, my father � rst encoun-tered America with all of its hardships and few of its glories. We didn’t have a mattress at the time, so we slept on the carpet of our one-bedroom apartment. A� er working two full-time jobs (one hauling luggage in a hotel, the other cooking at a Denny’s in Houston,) Dad found a new job in a gas sta-tion. � e hours were long and he o� en only came home for only three or four hours of sleep, but I don’t look back on those times with misery. I was too young then.

But one of my earliest memories was around age four, when I visited my father outside Memorial Hermann Hospital in 1993. � at year, gunshot wounds from an armed robbery at Dad’s gas station had le� him in a wheelchair for more than a month. His absence felt like a hollowed-out emptiness, a sense that what once was is what should be and that anything else was loneliness.

Standing outside that hospital with mom and dad in his wheelchair and hospi-tal gown in a pitch-dark night during visit-ing hours, I felt complete. It felt reassuring to be next to the man with the same hair as me, the “big version” of myself. I was impatient for him to come home already, and I had no feeling (much less animos-ity) toward the robber. Being next to my father then was the only time in my life I felt hopelessly, undeniably secure.

I support the death penalty, and I don’t think Stroman’s evil deeds warrant seeing

the light of a free sun again. But his chil-dren shouldn’t be bere� of hearing his voice or being near him. On his execution-chronicles.com blog, a remorseful Stroman writes of being a “father of four awesome kids. � ree girls and one boy – kids are pure innocence – and I can’t stand for any-one to harm or abuse them.”

Bhuiyan understands Stroman is partly a victim of circumstance. Bhuiyan wrote of Stroman in the Austin-American States-man: “When he was a kid, about the kindest thing his mother told him was that she was $50 short on aborting him. His stepfather ordered him to hate people, and beat him every time he refused to get into a � ght.”

Bengali immigrants are accustomed to hardship. We le� a land of endemic poverty to forge a new identity in a country where we don’t even make up a tenth of a percent-age point of the population. I grew up o� en being confused for Indian or Pakistani, and unlike Italian- or Irish-Americans, we are too recently arrived to have substantially contributed to the melting pot.

A Bengali cab driver in New York made national headlines as a stabbing victim during the ground zero controversy, but he bore no malice against his attacker. Last year, another Bengali immigrant drove nearly 50 miles to return $21,000 an unfor-tunate passenger had le� in his cab. And in 2007, another Bengali also made news for defending a Jewish couple in a subway assault.

I hope Perry does the right thing and grants Stroman clemency. I also hope for-giveness and empathy are values that de� ne Bengali culture’s in� uence on America.

Quazi is a nursing graduate student.

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Spare Stroman, for my identity

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QUOTES TO NOTE Less money, more problemsOn Thursday the Board of Regents voted to allocate an additional $20 million out of the Permanent University Fund to UT.

“We haven’t decided how we are going to use it yet.” — UT Chief Financial Officer Kevin Hegarty after the Board of Regents approved additional funds for UT. “We could have chosen to sit back and say ‘How do we ride this out until the economy is back to where it was? Or we could say ‘Let’s try to improve our levels today, so that if the economy comes back we’re even stronger.’ ”— Hegarty commenting on changes in tuition rates at UT during the current recession, accord-ing to The Daily Texan.

“People are saying ‘Hey, for what I get, UT and similar institutions are a greater value.’ It’s reflected in the number of applications we get for fresh-men.” — Hegarty commenting on the value of educa-tion offered by UT during the recession.

“None of us saw 2008 coming, and this could be worse than 2008. And we’re not in a posi-tion to take that risk.” — UT Board of Regents Chairman Gene Pow-ell, on concerns regarding the dangers of another financial “bubble” forming and investments by the University’s investment management compa-ny, according to the Austin American-Statesman.

Texans shouldn’t ignore border issues

Growing up in South Texas, my friends and I would skip school to cross over to Mexico. We would drink cheap beer and eat tacos on the street, check out the shops and generally cause a ruckus. It was only a few years ago, but then the streets were always � lled with tourists, cars and people trying to sell trinkets.

� ose days are gone now. � e places we once frequented are deserted; tourists are now replaced by armed Mexican military; and shops are re-placed by abandoned buildings and bullet holes. � e bars we would go to are all gone. � e famous restaurants are boarded up and nearly forgotten.

“We were warned that the con� ict was bad, but we never thought it would be this bad,” said Yosi Sandler, a recent UT graduate and resident of Mon-terrey. “It’s crazy to see the streets so empty, and it is so tense you can feel it. It is so corrupt that you can no longer trust cops. We have all heard stories of them turning people into the cartels. Now we try to not stop at the red lights because you can’t trust the car that may pull up next to you.”

If students were looking for a cause to get in-volved with, this is it. � is is not some far-� ung war halfway across the world or some nuanced civil war in a country most people have never

heard of; the con� ict is next door. Every month the stories from the north of

Mexico grow more horrifying. Just this year, mass graves were found near the city of San Fernando, a priest was killed during a gun-� ght between two warring factions and a police chief of a Monterrey suburb was shot and killed in his own o� ce when gunmen simply walked through the front door of the station.

UT-Brownsville government professor Gua-dalupe Correa-Cabrera believes that more than 40,000 civilians have been killed in the north of Mexico since 2006. � e number of people who have � ed from their homes or voluntarily evacu-ated is still unknown.

“Most of the guns, 70 to 80 percent are com-ing from the United States,” Correa-Cabrera said. “People in the north [of Mexico] are living this ev-ery day. Many have le� , and of course people are afraid.”

On the other side of the border, however, one can hardly tell that there is a con� ict going on. In fact, since the border violence started, the Rio Grande Valley has slowly and quietly bene� ted as more a� uent Mexican families relocate them-selves in an attempt to reach safety.

Cities such as Brownsville and McAllen have seen a spike in real estate sales and in new business and tax revenue. � e city of Brownsville is even planning renovations to the downtown district

to accommodate its new residents. South Texas is one of the fastest growing areas in the United States and has received some national recognition because of this. Yet hardly any publications men-tions the border violence as a factor.

� e popular perception in the United States is that the border violence is being driven by a cul-ture of corruption in Mexico, which is partly true. But the reality is that the violence in Mexico is fu-eled more by American vices and luxuries than anything else.

Using guns that they easily procure in the United States due to lax gun laws, Mexican cartels are killing each other and anyone in their way for the privilege of selling drugs to Americans.

American o� cials have been of no help so far. A bungled operation known as Operation Fast And Furious by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives recently allowed the transfer of hundreds of guns to Mexican cartels.

� e American media and leaders have mainly tried to avoid this problem. � ere must be a change in our habits, in our laws and in the attitudes of leaders on both sides of the border if the situation is to improve. � e longer the con� ict continues, the more likely that violence will spill over the border and into Texas’ cities. � e issue of border violence is deeply complex, and other issues, such as illegal immigration, drug use, poverty, unem-ployment, hunger and gun rights, continue to

compound the problem. Texas students can and should play a role in

stopping the violence. � is issue is not going to go away anytime soon, and the longer it is ignored on this side of the border, the worse it will become. A new direction must be taken by both sides. Real immigration reform, and an end to the drug war are just two issues that students can campaign on to help end the violence in Mexico.

As long as there is a market in the United States for cheap drugs and cheap workers, the con� ict to supply those services will continue. Students can start on campus by calling for real immigration and drug reform in Texas, and for stricter gun laws. Students could also support and volunteer with grassroots organizations such as the Latin America Working Group to give support to refugees and the families of those a� ected by the violence.

“� ere is a lot of misinformation about the issue right now,” Correa-Cabrera said. “Many peo-ple don’t understand that there are issues on both sides of the border driving the violence in Mexico. Activism from students in the United States would help. � ere must be more knowledge about what is happening with the drugs and the guns and what the relationship between the two countries really is like.”

Fisch is a rhetoric and writing senior.

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Date: July 18, 2011To: All Students at The University of Texas at AustinFrom: Dr. Soncia Reagins-Lilly, Senior Associate Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of StudentsSubject: TEXAS HAZING STATUTE SUMMARY AND THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN’S HAZING REGULATIONS

The 70th Texas Legislature enacted a law concerning hazing. Under the law, individuals or organizations engaging in hazing could be subject to fines and charged with a criminal offense.

According to the law, a person can commit a hazing offense not only by engaging in a hazing activity, but also by soliciting, directing, encouraging, aiding or attempting to aid another in hazing; by intentionally, knowingly or recklessly allowing hazing to occur; or by failing to report, in writing to the Dean of Students or another appropri-ate official of the institution, first-hand knowledge that a hazing incident is planned or has occurred. The fact that a person consented to or acquiesced in a hazing activity is not a defense to prosecution for hazing under this law.

In an effort to encourage reporting of hazing incidents, the law grants immunity from civil or criminal liability to any person who reports a specific hazing event in good faith and without malice to the Dean of Students or other appropriate official of the institution and immunizes that person for participation in any judicial proceeding result-ing from liability that might otherwise be incurred or imposed as a result of the report. Additionally, a doctor or other medical practitioner who treats a student who may have been subjected to hazing may make a good faith report of the suspected hazing activities to police or other law enforcement officials and is immune from civil or other liability that might otherwise be imposed or incurred as a result of the report. The penalty for failure to report is a fine of up to $1,000, up to 180 days in jail, or both. Penalties for other hazing offenses vary according to the severity of the injury which results and include fines from $500 to $10,000 and/or confinement for up to two years.

HAZING DEFINED

The law defines hazing as any intentional, knowing or reckless act, occurring on or off the campus of an edu-cational institution, by one person alone or acting with others, directed against a student, that endangers the mental or physical health or safety of a student for the purpose of pledging, being initiated into, affiliating with, holding office in or maintaining membership in any organization whose members are or include stu-dents at an educational institution. Hazing includes but is not limited to:

A. any type of physical brutality, such as whipping, beating, striking, branding, electronic shocking, placing of a harmful substance on the body or similar activity;

B. any type of physical activity, such as sleep deprivation, exposure to the elements, confinement in a small space, calisthenics, or other activity that subjects the student to an unreasonable risk of harm or that ad-versely affects the mental or physical health or safety of the student;

C. any activity involving consumption of food, liquid, alcoholic beverage, liquor, drug or other substance which subjects the student to an unreasonable risk of harm or which adversely affects the mental or physi-cal health of the student;

D. any activity that intimidates or threatens the student with ostracism, that subjects the student to extreme mental stress, shame or humiliation, or that adversely affects the mental health or dignity of the student or discourages the student from entering or remaining registered in an educational institution, or that may reasonably be expected to cause a student to leave the organization or the institution rather than submit to acts described in this subsection;

E. any activity that induces, causes or requires the student to perform a duty or task which involves a violation of the Penal Code.

UNIVERSITY DISCIPLINARY RULES

This law does not affect or in any way limit the right of the university to enforce its own rules against hazing under Chapter 16 of the Institutional Rules on Student Services and Activities. In addition, Rules and Regulations of the Board of Regents of The University of Texas System, Series 50101, Number 2, Section 2.8, provide that:

(a) Hazing with or without the consent of a student is prohibited by the System, and a violation of that pro-hibition renders both the person inflicting the hazing and the person submitting to the hazing subject to discipline.

(b) Initiations or activities by organizations may include no feature that is dangerous, harmful or degrading to the student. A violation of this prohibition renders both the organization and participating individuals subject to discipline.

DANGEROUS OR DEGRADING ACTIVITIES

Activities which under certain conditions constitute acts which are dangerous, harmful or degrading, in violation of Chapter 16 and subsections 6-303(b)(3) and 11-404(a)(8) of the Institutional Rules on Student Services and Activities include but are not limited to:

c Calisthenics, such as sit-ups, push-ups or any other form of physical exercise;

c Total or partial nudity at any time;

c The eating or ingestion of any unwanted substance;

c The wearing or carrying of any embarrassing, degrading or physically burdensome article;

c Paddle swats, including the trading of swats;

c Pushing, shoving, tackling or any other physical contact;

c Throwing any substance on a person;

c Consumption of alcoholic beverages accompanied by ei-ther threats or peer pressure;

c Lineups for the purpose of interrogating, demeaning or intimidating;

c Transportation and abandonment (road trips, kidnaps, walks, rides, drops);

DISCIPLINED ORGANIZATIONS, INCLUDING THOSE RESOLVED VIA MUTUAL AGREEMENTS

In accordance with requirements of the Texas Education Code Section 51.936(c), the following organizations have been disciplined for hazing and/or convicted for hazing, on or off campus, during the preceding three years:

c Absolute Texxas* Conditional registration is one and a half (1.5) years (Completed November 19, 2009).

c Alpha Epsilon Pi Found to be in violation; Penalty pending.

c alpha Kappa Delta Phi* Conditional registration is three (3) years (June 10, 2013).

c Alpha Tau Omega* Conditional registration is two (2) years (May 13, 2012).

c Beta Chi Theta* Conditional registration is one (1) year (Completed August 24, 2010).

c Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Penalty issued November 10, 2009 (Suspended through December 31, 2009; Probation through October 30, 2012).

c Delta Tau Delta* Conditional registration is two (2) years (September 9, 2012).

c Kappa Alpha Order* Conditional registration is three (3) months (Completed December 31, 2010).

c Kappa Phi Gamma Sorority, Inc.* Conditional registration is one (1) year (Completed May 12, 2009).

cLambda Phi Epsilon Penalty issued December 20, 2005 (Cancelled through December 19, 2011; Suspended through December 19, 2012; Probation through December 19, 2013).

c Omega Phi Gamma* Conditional registration is three (3) years (July 13, 2014).

c Phi Delta Chi-Pharmacy* Conditional registration is one (1) year (Completed March 5, 2010).

c Phi Delta Theta* Conditional registration is two (2) years (July 13, 2013).

c Phi Gamma Delta* Conditional registration is two (2) years (Completed July 15, 2010).

c Phi Kappa Psi Penalty issued February 7, 2006 (Cancelled through February 6, 2007; Suspended through March 27, 2008; Probation through March 24, 2010).

c Sigma Alpha Epsilon* Conditional registration is five (5) years (April 7, 2013).

c Sigma Chi* Conditional registration is two (2) years (Completed May 16, 2010).

c Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc.* Conditional registration is one (1) year (Completed August 16, 2010).

c Sigma Phi Epsilon* Conditional registration is two (2) years (September 1, 2012).

c Silver Spurs* Conditional registration is ongoing.

c Texas Cheer and Pom* Conditional registration is two (2) years (July 23, 2011).

c Texas Iron Spikes* Conditional registration is three (3) years (March 7, 2014).

c Texas Spirits* Conditional registration is one (1) year (Completed May 19, 2009).

c Texas Wranglers* Conditional registration is two (2) years (Completed October 6, 2010).

c Zeta Beta Tau* Conditional registration is two (2) years (August 19, 2012).

*Resolved via Mutual Agreement

To report an act of hazing to the Office of the Dean of Students, visit deanofstudents.utexas.edu/complaint.php. For further information or clarification of probationary member activities, please contact Student Activities in the Office of the Dean of Students, Student Services Building (SSB) 4.400, 512-471-3065.

c Confining individuals in an area that is uncomfort-able or dangerous (hot box effect, high temperature, too small);

c Any form of individual interrogation;

c Any type of servitude that is of personal benefit to the individual members;

c Wearing of embarrassing or uncomfortable clothing;

c Assigning pranks such as stealing, painting objects, harassing other organizations;

c Intentionally messing up the house or a room for clean up;

c Demeaning names;

c Yelling or screaming; and

c Requiring boxing matches or fights for entertain-ment.

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After 37 years of working for the University Health Services, Jeanne Carpenter will retire to spend more time with friends and family, she said.

The Division of Student Af-fairs announced Thursday the University Health Services Asso-ciate Vice President and Director Jeanne Carpenter will retire Sept. 1. Chris Brownson, director of the Counseling and Mental Health Center, will take her position as associate vice president of student affairs and look for a new director of the center.

“I’ve had the opportunity to work with dedicated, professional staff who are really looking out for the best interest of the students,” Carpenter said. “From the oth-er side, I have the opportunity to interact with student leaders and Student Health Advisory Com-mittee members and have had a wonderful working relationship with so many students.”

Carpenter praised Chris Brown-son as a good choice to replace her as associate vice president of student affairs who also over-sees the Counseling and Mental Health Center, the Sanger Learn-ing and Career Center and Uni-

versity Health Services.“He is an excellent speaker and

communicator,” she said. “He has had experience working in all four areas that will be in his portfolio and he’s well respected by the staff of each of his units.”

Juan Gonzalez, vice president of student affairs, said Carpenter was a true professional and a joy to work with.

“She was held in the absolute highest regard with absolute fond-

ness,” Gonzalez said. “She’s a kind person. She has great people skills, always treated people with dignity and respect.”

Gonzalez praised Carpenter’s work as director of University Health Services, a position she has held since 1997.

“She helped implement a mod-ern electronic records system,” he said. “Her health center is re-garded as one of the most well-run university health centers in the nation.”

Brownson said he is sad to see Carpenter retire.

“She has been an excellent su-pervisor and mentor, and a friend,” he said in an email. “She always makes decisions based on what is in the best interest of stu-dents on our campus.”

Stephanie Manjudano, Student Health Advisory Committee offi-cer liaison, said she was impressed with the interactions Carpenter had with students at committee meetings last year.

“She wanted to know what we thought about University Health Services, what our opinions were, what our concerns, what our opin-ions about every aspect of Health Services was,” she said. “She was also very personable and we feel like she really tried to get to know students.”

Trent Lesikar | Daily Texan staff

Jeanne Carpenter will retire as vice president and director of University Health Services on Sept. 1 after 37 years at UT.

Administrator of UHS to retire, coworker to take over position

The UT System Board of Re-gents allocated an additional $20 million to UT from the Perma-nent University Fund during their meeting Thursday.

This one-time increase will be an addition to the $168 million the Uni-versity received last year from the endowment, said Chief Financial Officer Kevin Hegarty.

“We haven’t decided how we are going to use it yet,” Hegarty said.

The endowment is made up of lands the University owns and leas-

es to oil companies and other indus-tries for grazing purposes, he said. The money generated is invested by the University of Texas Invest-ment Management Company and split between UT and Texas A&M University.

The money will not be used for recurring needs because it is only a one-time endowment, but the University budget office will de-cide how to move forward with the money, Hegarty said.

“[The endowment] will provide

UT with additional money that does not cover the shortfall but will certainly assist,” said the board’s chairman Gene Powell during the meeting.

He said revenue generated from the lands was more than expected this year, and the Regents have de-cided to help UT and Texas A&M with extra money that will pay for students services and other needs.

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Regent Alex M. Cranberg gives his opinion regarding budgeting for additional university structures during a Board of Regents meeting Thursday afternoon.

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Personal connections with a chari-ty are important to people who offer philanthropy, new research from UT and other universities confirms.

UT assistant psychology professor Marlone Henderson and research-ers from the University of Chica-go and Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea conducted five studies of 1,462 people that Henderson said would be published in the “Journal of Experimental Psychology: Gen-eral.” The studies manipulated au-dience identifica-tion by describ-ing the beneficia-ries of a shared goal in distanc-ing terms such as “they” or “them” or in close terms such as “we” and “us.”

When people identified less with a cause, they were more motivat-ed by appeals that focused on what had already been accomplished.

“Individuals who think of the beneficiaries in psychologically dis-tant terms contribute more when you can find a way to signal to them that the charity’s cause is important,” Henderson said in an email. “When you make people focus on what oth-er people have already contributed versus what’s still missing, people feel like the cause is more important and thus feel more motivated to give.”

By contrast, people who identified more with a cause were better per-suaded by appeals focused on what the group needed to meet its goal. Henderson said those who identify with a cause do not need to be per-suaded of its importance but that it

needs support.Henderson said the research could

help groups develop new strategies to increase donors and contributions and therefore benefit society.

“In the United States and abroad, there have been recent calls by pol-icy makers for citizens to engage in more philanthropy,” he said. “Such in-creased engagement in philanthropy would likely result in benefits at both the personal and social level, as char-itable giving and volunteering have been linked to better health as well as a better economy.”

Peter Frum-kin, director of the RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service in the LBJ School of Pub-lic Affairs, said the research could help nonprofits as they face fewer donations due to a rough economy.

“ T h e s t u d y points at least one part of the strate-gy during tough times is to go back to your loy-al donors, because you’re kind of em-

phasizing the missing pieces that are required,” he said.

Frumkin said nonprofits could also increase funds by getting people involved in other ways before solicit-ing money for donations.

Julia Gasc, the college director of Best Buddies at UT, said the research is in line with her experiences and that she will considerate in future at-tempts to recruit people or solicit do-nations.

“Our accomplishments and what we’re trying to do as an organiza-tion are a big part of recruiting peo-ple who just aren’t really interested or haven’t had any kind of experience with Best Buddies,” Gasc said.

Philanthropic study may help nonprofits with scarce funding

Lecture blends health, technology

Ryan Edwards | Daily Texan Staff

Dr. Misha Vaughan presents methods for designing internet and mobile health promotion interfaces at the Nursing School’s Summer Colloquium on Friday. The purpose of the discussion was to help individuals working with medical technologies increase their ease of use.

The School of Nursing is bring-ing creative minds from the health and communications industries to-gether to develop new ideas for im-plementing health care using mod-ern technology.

The Center for Health Promo-tion & Prevention Research host-ed a lecture Friday to promote new systems of communication in hos-pitals and updated ways of provid-ing health care to patients such as integrated computer programs and improved electronic interfaces.

Dr. Misha Vaughan, architect for the computer technology company Oracle and a UT alumni, said de-velopers should aim to provide an engaging user experiences through their electronic interfaces.

“The game is changing,” Vaughan

said. “The bar is raised, and expec-tations of users of technology to-day because you’re competing with user experiences such as Amazon, Facebook and the iPad. If it’s not as easy to use, seamless and inter-active, your user is one click away from finding another option.”

Vaughan said the most impor-tant component in designing use-ful programs is conducting re-search in the health care field to recognize the types of interrup-tions professionals and patients ex-perience when using the technolo-gy and develop solutions for them.

“It’s really important you consid-er the real world context and what the challenges someone such as a new mom might face when trying to use the Internet or a mobile de-vice to access health information,” she said. “We also followed health professionals in foreign countries

to see what their daily work life was like, and it was only through obser-vation that we learned their specif-ic needs such as how important things like texting can be in coun-tries with a high noise level.”

Vaughan said programs with poorly designed interfaces cause companies to miss out on potential profits as users look for programs that better meet their needs.

“You don’t have to be a bil-lion dollar company to do this,” she said. “You can actually do a lot of this research very cheaply, and focus on engagement and the flow of the information which are most important.”

Nursing professor Lorraine Walker said Vaughan’s research provides an effective structure for finding the most efficient way for health care professionals to com-municate important information

using new technology.“This research focuses on next-

generation user interface technol-ogy,” Walker said. “There is a lot of discussion going on about health promotion through technology such as the Internet, but knowing how to do it well is the next challenge.”

Associate nursing professor Lin-da Yoder said it is important to keep health communication tech-nologies current so young health professionals are not alienated by older technologies that may be un-familiar to them.

“When we look at the average nurse on a very busy unit, it’s im-portant that you see this fluid ac-tion of nursing work,” Yoder said. “If we do a better job of informa-tion interface within that environ-ment, it would provide enrichment especially for the new generation of workers.”

Harry Ransom Center visitors will be able to explore censor-ship in publications between the two world wars in an exhibition titled “Banned Burned, Seized, and Censored,” which will open this fall.

According to the Ransom Cen-ter’s website, the exhibition will showcase U.S. institutions that re-stricted publication during the time period. Some of the institu-tions include the New York So-ciety for the Suppression of Vice, the New England Watch and Ward Society, the Book-of-the-Month

Club, the Post Office Department and the Treasury Department.

Censorship in America tends to be about sexuality, said Rob-ert Jacks, a graduate student who teaches a course on banned books and novel ideas.

“There’s never an itching on censoring violence, but it’s the sex-ual situations that will get authors in trouble,” Jacks said.

He said the graphic sex scenes and scatological humor led to cen-sorship of the early 20th century novel “Ulysses,” by James Joyce.

The topic of this exhibit was sug-gested to the Ransom Center by a visitor, said Danielle Sigler, a cu-rator there. Sigler said censorship

remains an issue because of new electronic publishing formats and questions about appropriateness in those formats.

“There’s a graphic edition of the novel ‘Ulysses,’ which is being pub-lished in an online format, and [the publishers] ran into issues with Apple censoring material because it featured nudity,” Sigler said.

The publisher and lead creator of the Ulysses publication are go-ing to be at the Ransom Cen-ter this fall to talk about their ex-perience with censorship. Oth-er guest speakers will include Isa-iah Sheffer, who presents “Selec-tive Shorts” on National Public Ra-dio, and two actors who will read

selections from banned works at the exhibition.

“I hope this gives people the op-portunity to think critically about their own views on censorship, to look at this earlier era and try to understand both the pro- and an-ti-censorship arguments of the pe-riod,” Sigler said. “Visitors can look at the world around them and see how those arguments are still being articulated today.”

The Ransom Center houses the documents of Morris Ernst, a no-torious civil liberties attorney who defended Joyce and Random House Publishing when obscenity charg-es were brought against his novel in 1922.

The museum received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to reorganize the Ernst collection and make it more accessible for researchers, Sigler said. She said there are some items from the papers that are in the ex-hibition, and the bulk of the collec-tion will be accessible to researchers at end of the year.

The Ernst collection is cen-tral to the exhibit and the fact that the museum has a great Joyce col-lection provides the opportuni-ty for the public to see the vari-ous kinds of censorship that some people don’t realize exist, said Thomas Staley, director of the Ransom Center.

“I think it’s especially interesting now for students to look at this phe-nomenon because it tells us a great deal about ourselves, about Ameri-ca and about what is it that’s being said and why,” Staley said.

Staley is currently overseeing various academic programs which will be associated with the exhibi-tion. He is finding opportunities for collaboration between students and faculty who are studying issues re-lated to first amendment rights and are able to examine the material in person.

“Banned, Burned, Seized, and Censored” will be open to the public from Sep. 6, 2011, to Jan. 22, 2012.

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Former Texas running back Ce-dric Benson was arrested early Sunday morning and booked at the Travis County Jail on a misde-meanor charge of assault causing bodily injury. He was out of jail by Sunday afternoon.

Benson’s lawyer Sam Bassett sent this statement to The Daily Texan:

“Mr. Benson has been charged with misdemeanor assault aris-ing out of a conflict with a former male roommate. The two had dif-ficulties resulting from Mr. Ben-son asking the former male room-mate to leave his home a few days prior to this incident. The conflict became physical early this morn-ing and we intend to fully investi-gate. There is not enough informa-tion available at this time for fur-ther comment.”

In four seasons at Texas, Benson rushed for 5,540 yards, second in school history. He is a member of the Cincinnati Bengals.

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SIDELINE

It was a tough first half of the sea-son for the Houston Astros. With the worst record in baseball at the All-Star break, the Astros couldn’t seem to catch a break.

Save for Hunter Pence, who leads the team in the major offensive catego-ries, the Astros have had little to hang their hats and hopes on this season. The team’s lone All-Star boasts a .323 aver-age, has hit 11 home runs and has driv-en in 60 runs, but the rest of the team has done little to support Pence’s impres-sive numbers.

At the All-Star break, Houston owned a 30-63 record and sat 19 games behind the Pittsburgh Pirates. The perennial bottom-feeders of the NL Central have finally righted the ship and are now in contention for the NL Central Division.

It is extremely difficult to find more than a couple of Astros who haven’t been a major disappointment this year. Enter Carlos Lee. The hefty Panamanian has done little to impress in a home ballpark that caters to his heavy pull hitting. With

the short porch in left field only 315 feet away, Lee has only been able to hit sev-en home runs thus far — hardly accept-able from someone who is supposed to provide major power and is paid accord-ingly. Coupled with his lack of mobility both on the bases and on the field, Lee has proved to be a major hindrance for the Astros and this doesn’t seem to be changing anytime soon.

Michael Bourn may not be having as bad a year as Lee, but his numbers are far from what he is capable of. The Houston native has stolen 35 bases, which is tops in the majors, but his strikeout num-bers remain too high for a leadoff hitter. With a .287 average and 60 runs scored, Bourn does sit among the team lead-ers in those categories. However, a lack of dependable run production from the rest of the team is what has hurt the As-tros thus far.

Offensive production has been mini-mal, as has the pitching. The Astros’ team ERA of 4.66 is next to last in the ma-jors, and the team only has ten saves this

In the midst of an 11-game win streak, the Rangers are showing that last year’s AL pen-nant was no fluke.

You could always count on Texas for plen-ty of runs every night. Before last season, you could count on the same from their op-ponent as well. Since all-time strikeout king Nolan Ryan took over the organization, the Texas pitching staff that was once a burden is now what’s driving the team’s recent success.

Ryan’s disregard of pitch counts and em-phasis on starting pitchers going deeper into games has worked wonders for his staff. In 2008, Ryan’s first year as Rangers presi-dent, Texas finished dead last in team ERA, WHIP, quality starts and opposing batting average. This season, the Rangers have im-proved to a 3.81 team ERA, more than 1.5 runs below what it was in ’08 and they are on-pace for 102 quality starts, nearly twice as many as they had four seasons ago.

Despite losing southpaw extraordinaire

Cliff Lee, Texas’ pitching staff is as formida-ble as it was in 2010. C.J. Wilson was an All-Star this season. Derek Holland has thrown consecutive complete game shutouts. Col-by Lewis was an out away from tossing one in his last start. Alexi Ogando has brilliantly and seamlessly made the transition from re-liever to starter.

The Rangers lineup is still fearsome. Even without two critical parts of their lineup — Nelson Cruz (for nearly three weeks) and defending AL MVP Josh Hamilton (for over five weeks) — Texas hung on to its division lead. On May 23, Cruz and Hamilton both homered in their first games back. Since their return from the disabled list, Texas is 29-18, good for the major league’s fourth-best record in that span.

Middle infielders Ian Kinsler, who has mi-raculously managed to stay healthy all sea-son, and Elvis Andrus have been solid so far. On the corners, Mitch Moreland and third

FRANKFURT, Germany — Ja-pan stunned the Americans in a riveting Women’s World Cup fi-nal, beating them 3-1 on penalty kicks Sunday after coming from behind twice in a 2-2 tie. Goal-keeper Ayumi Kaihori made two brilliant saves in the shootout.

“Before we went to the match tonight we had some commen-tary on television and we heard comments on the situation in Ja-pan,” coach Norio Sasaki said. “We wanted to use this opportunity to thank the people back home for the support that has been given.”

This was Japan’s first appear-ance in the final of a major tour-nament, and they had not beat-en the Americans in their first 25 meetings, including a pair of 2-0 losses in warm-up games a month before the World Cup. But the Nadeshiko pushed ahead, playing inspired soccer and hoping their success could provide even a small emotion-al lift to their nation, still reel-ing from the March 11 earth-quake and tsunami that devas-tated the northern coast of the country and left nearly 23,000 dead or missing.

After each game, the team un-furled a banner saying, “To our Friends Around the World — Thank You for Your Support.” On Sunday, they did it before the match and afterward they had a new sign to display: Champions — and the first Asian country to win this title.

The Americans found it all too hard to grasp. They believed they were meant to be World Cup champions after their rocky year — needing a playoff to

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Japan stuns US in back-and-forth final match

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United States goalkeeper Hope Solo fails to save a penalty during the penalty shootout of the final match between Japan and the United States at the Women’s Soccer World Cup in Frankfurt, Germany, Sunday.

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Lack of run production, pitching cripples Astros

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Texas Rangers starting pitcher C.J. Wilson throws in the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Seattle Mariners on Saturday in Seattle.

Rangers putting wins together in hopes of another AL crown

National League’s Hunter Pence of the Houston Astros runs to third base on a passed ball by American League’s Matt Wieters of the Baltimore Orioles during the seventh inning of the MLB All-Star baseball game Tuesday, in Phoenix.

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A fan wonders what could have been as the 2011 Women’s World Cup ended Sunday afternoon. The United States lost to Japan 3-1 on penalty kicks in the explosive finale held in Frankfurt, Germany.

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Japanese overcome odds, win in incredible fashion over favored Americans

If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times — sports have this uncanny way of mim-icking real life in some form or fashion.

When Japan won the 2011 Women’s World Cup, they were ranked the fourth best team in the world, and miles behind the Americans, Swedes and Germans in terms of size and power. But l ike Japan,

the nation, the players pro-gressed forward with a quiet confidence that can’t be found in many teams, especia l ly when their friends and fam-ily were dealing with disaster back home.

When Japan was devastated by the costly March earthquake — in terms of both lives and money — they spent little time grieving. Rather, they lived by the Japanese word “ganbare,” which has no literal transla-tion into English. According to Japanese linguists, “persevere,” “fight on” and “hang in there” don’t quite capture its deeper meaning, but it is somewhere

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SANDWICH, England — An-other major goes to Northern Ire-land. The surprise was Darren Clarke’s name on the claret jug.

Ten years after he last contend-ed in a major, no longer in the top 100 in the world, Clarke delivered his defining moment Sunday in the British Open when he held off brief challenges from Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson to win golf ’s oldest championship.

The weather was so wild that heavy rain changed to sunshine, back and forth all afternoon, while the wind was relentless.

Clarke was a steady presence through it all.

A 20-foot eagle putt on the sev-enth hole gave him the lead for good, and he didn’t drop a shot until it no longer mattered. With bogeys

on the last two holes, Clarke closed with an even-par 70 for a three-shot victory over the two Americans.

“Pretty amazing right now,” Clarke said, the claret jug at his side. “It’s been a dream since I’ve been a kid to win the Open, like any kid’s dream is, and I’m able to do it, which just feels incredible.”

Northern Ireland had gone 63 years without a major. Now it has three of the last six — Graeme Mc-Dowell in the U.S. Open last year at Pebble Beach, followed by Rory McIl-roy at the U.S. Open in a record per-formance last month at Congressio-nal, and now the 42-year-old Clarke.

“Northern Ireland...... Golf capi-tal of the world!!” McIlroy tweeted as Clarke played the last hole.

“We’re blessed to have two fantas-tic players in Rory and GMac, and I’ve just come along, the only guy coming along behind them,” Clarke said. “We have fantastic golf cours-

es, we have fantastic facilities, but to have three major champions from a little, small place in a short period of time, it’s just incredible.”

They are so close that a week af-ter McIlroy won the U.S. Open, Clarke pulled out of a tourna-ment in Germany so he could re-turn to Northern Ireland and join the celebration.

They were always for someone else. Clarke had reason to believe his best celebrations were behind him. Surely, nothing could top play-ing a Ryder Cup on home soil in Ire-land five years ago and leading Eu-rope to victory just one month after his wife, Heather, died of cancer.

“In terms of what’s going through my heart, there’s obviously some-body who is watching down from up above there, and I know she’d be very proud of me,” Clarke said. “She’s probably be saying, ‘I told you so.’”

Indeed, this was overdue.

qualify, a loss in group play to Sweden, the epic comeback against Brazi l . They simply couldn’t pull off one last thriller.

“The players were patient, they wanted to win this game,” Sasaki said. “I think it’s because of that the Americans scored only two goals.”

While Japan celebrated at midfield, the Americans stood as a group and watched.

“There are really no words,” Abby Wambach said. “We were so close.”

Minutes, in fact.After Wambach scored in the

104th minute of overtime to give the Americans a 2-1 lead, Ho-mare Sawa flicked in a corner kick in the 117th to tie it. It was the fifth goal of the tournament for Sawa, who was playing in her fifth World Cup.

“We ran and ran,” Sawa said. “We were exhausted, but we kept running.”

The Americans had beat-en Brazil on penalty kicks in a quarterfinal, but they didn’t have the same touch Sunday. Give Kaihori credit for some of that. Shannon Boxx took the first U.S. shot, and it banged off Kaihori’s right leg as she dove. After Aya Miyama made her penalty, Car-li Lloyd stepped up and sent her shot soaring over the crossbar. As the crowd gasped, Lloyd cov-ered her mouth in dismay.

Hope Solo saved Japan’s next shot, but Kaihori made an im-pressive two-handed save on a shot by Tobin Heath.

“This is a team effort,” Kaihori said. “In the penalty shootout I just had to believe in myself and I was very confident.”

Solo came up with a save, a n d Wa m b a c h bu r i e d h e r penalty kick.

But Japan need to make j u s t o n e m o r e , a n d S a k i Kumagai did.

“It’s tough to do two rounds of penalties,” Wambach said. “The keeper knows in a lot of ways where we’re going to go. She made some great saves.”

Hollywood celebrities, pro athletes, even folks who don’t know a bicycle kick from a Schwinn were captivated by the U.S. women and charmed by their grit and can-do attitude that is uniquely — proudly — American. Even President Ba-rack Obama was a fan, taking to Twitter himself Sunday morning to wish the team well.

“Sorry I can’t be there to see you play, but I’ll be cheering you on from here. Let’s go. — BO.”

But, of course, it was not to be.

“If any other country was to win this, then I’m really hap-py and proud for Japan,” Lloyd said. “Deep down inside I really thought it was our destiny to win it. But maybe it was Japan’s.”

baseman Adrian Beltre are just as reliable. Remarkably, Michael Young leads Texas with a .323 bat-ting average — impressive consid-ering he was thought of as an after-thought this offseason after the ac-quisition of Beltre. Young is 32 hits away from 2,000 career.

Former Longhorn catcher Taylor Teagarden recently had a brief stint with the Rangers after Mike Napo-li was injured. Teagarden made six

starts in the three weeks he spent in the big leagues, hitting .269. In his last game, Teagarden went out in style, going 3-for-5 with two dou-bles and a pair of RBI.

On his way back from the DL, Napoli spent some time play-ing for the Round Rock Express. He blasted a walk-off home run one night and homered twice the next night, with the second send-ing the game into extra innings.

Napoli was called up July 4 and is hitting .391 and slugging a whop-ping .913.

But considering the Rangers re-cent history, Napoli’s power surge shouldn’t come as a surprise. The Texas Rangers have always hit well. As long as their pitching staff stays healthy and performs the way it did in the first half of the season, they should find themselves in the play-offs once again.

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Northern Ireland’s Darren Clarke holds the Claret Jug trophy in front of the scoreboard on the 18th green as he celebrates winning the British Open Golf Championship at Royal St George’s golf course Sandwich, England, Sunday, July 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

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along those lines.The nation still grieving, still

working together to clean up the billions of dollars in damag-es, still mourning the uncount-able loss of life, still trying to find any semblance of normalcy in their daily routines exempli-fies the word, and it is certain-ly a mantra the Japanese squad lived by throughout the tourna-ment and most evidently in the final match.

America shot 31 shots in the f inal. Abby Wambach, Alex Morgan, Carli Lloyd, Lauren Cheney and the rest of the U.S. team fired round after round at the small Japanese goalie, Ayu-mi Kaihori, but she didn’t sweat it. She allowed two perfectly ex-ecuted, indefensible goals in, but brilliantly navigated the rest of the barrage.

America played power ball, and played it well for majority

of the match. Morgan was able to use her speed and toughness to get in front of the Japanese defense and smash a shot into the upper corner of the net. Ja-pan answered a few minutes lat-er by being patient, forcing the U.S. to make a mistake and set-ting itself up for a cute little tap in right in front of Hope Solo and the American defense.

When Wambach received that beautiful cross from Morgan in the 104th minute, she towered over her defender to strike a perfect header into the back of the net. That didn’t stop the lit-tle-engine-that-could Japanese team from playing that unique brand of touch-and-go soccer that set up the eventual Homare Sawa back-heel goal in the dra-matic 117th minute.

There’s no reason to be happy the United States lost, but there surely is reason to be happy Ja-

pan won. As a matter of fact, the United States played the bet-ter game, and in a perfect sports world, the stronger team should always come out on top. But like the world, sports aren’t perfect, they are real. And reality, like sports, has only a few truths — mental toughness, teamwork and, above all, perseverance pay in the long run.

By the t ime the inevita-ble penalty kicks rolled around (you knew that was the only way to end the drama), Japan was aware it had finally worked hard enough to gain the upper hand. Before the teams took to the pitch, the Japanese team didn’t say much in their huddle. The camera caught head coach No-rio Sasaki, simply smiling at his team in the huddle, as if to say, “We’ve already won this, now make it official.” Or maybe he was saying “ganbare.”

season. The five starting pitchers share only 17 wins and the tal-ented J.A. Happ owns a 3-11 re-cord. Once again, it is tough to find any positives when the low-est ERA of a starting pitcher is 3.46, which belongs to Bud Nor-ris. Norris does have 113 strike-

outs as well, but his 5-6 record is far from perfect.

Lastly, Houston’s 69 errors and .980 team fielding percentage ranks 27th out of 30 teams in the majors. Just like the many balls that have gotten by the Astros to cause all those errors, this season

has seemed to slip away as well. The Astros are in quite the hole

in the NL Central, but as they have proved before in the second half of the season, no lead is safe in the division. In order to mount another comeback, they’ll need help from the entire club.

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A crowd seeks shelter at the Cloud Gate sculpture, also known as The Bean, on a rainy day in Millennium Park. The sculpture was designed by artist Anish Kapoor and was constructed between 2004-2006.

scenes from the second city

A woman looks down the sidewalk before crossing the street with a small child in Chinatown. A lifeguard looks out over the waters of Lake Michigan on a cold, rainy day in downtown Chicago. “It’s a slow day but at least I still get paid,” he said.

A man sleeps in a Dunkin’ Donuts late at night near downtown Chicago.

A woman walks down a flight of stairs on Columbus Drive.

raveling with a camera in hand provides a sort of protection the average wanderer in a new city doesn’t get. It can be something to hide behind, an icebreaker with strang-ers, or simply a way to document the sights and cultures in a strange place. My camer-

as were my shield, my introduction to others and the way I recorded my first trip to Chica-go this summer.

A city is nothing without people, and the people of Chicago are a unique breed. In warm-er weather, the city lurches forward from the depths of a cold winter and takes to the streets to embrace its humanity. The sidewalks of any given neighborhood are full of workers, shop-pers, travelers and tourists. Sports unite and divide Chicagoans, and the Wrigleyville neigh-borhood is full of baseball fans either at the stadium or in numerous bars celebrating the sport, the city and each other.

The city pulses to the beat of public transportation. Buses and trains ship people between the city’s 200-plus neighborhoods, and familiarity with the city’s bus and train schedules pro-vides another layer of protection for residents and visitors. Although those transport maps were new to me, my cameras did the job just fine.

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universe, but we heard a distress call from Earth — that Earth has lost its groove — and we came to help to bring the groove back.”

The band, which is made up of five guys with different superhe-ro identities, work hard to accom-plish their groove-retrieving mis-sion, and the effort is obvious when the smoke covers the stage, the psy-chedelic lights start flashing and The Space Rockers appear.

“It’s not a normal cover band,” Stone, 32, said. “We don’t just get up there in jeans and shirts and play. [We] bring another element to the show; it makes you part of it, drags you into it. We could be in a Las Ve-gas show. It’s like I’ve gone to the gym for three hours after I’m done. We all do a bunch of choreographed dance moves that are a blast and a lot of it’s free for all, too. We do not stop moving, ever.”

The audience Saturday has a sim-ilar philosophy. They’re rollicking to the left and to the right in unison to the infamous dance number “Cupid Shuffle” as if they had been practic-ing at home. Everyone’s smiling and singing along, and it appears as if the only thing on most people’s minds at the moment is keeping up with the moves and not spilling their drinks — a noticeable difference from the hesitation that some of them might have felt when they arrived earlier that night and seen what looks like an electrified, hip-hop version of The Wiggles.

“I think they’re amazing,” said Nat-alie Dean, who attended the show Saturday. “[The show] was phenom-enal. I don’t know about their super-hero space thing, but it looks like they’re all having an amazing time, and that goes a long way.”

Stone, who has dreadlocks, wears a homemade, red and black outfit with an electronic wrist device that allows him to communicate with the invisible spaceship (a recorded me-chanical female voice that answers on cue) when he’s on stage. The band’s extraterrestrial look can be a

little weird for first time show-goers, but Stone said that the performance usually wins over any doubters.

“Guys and girls will walk in and their reaction will be like, ‘What the hell is this? Oh my God. What is this?’” Stone said. “And then they’ll stay for a song or two. And then two turns into the whole night. And then they’ll come over to me after and say that they had been going to leave when they first saw us. It’s re-ally cool because it runs the gamut of guys with beards and heavy metal shirts saying, ‘Oh my God, I thought I was going to hate you guys, but ... I loved you guys!’ to really preppy people, too.”

The Space Rockers have been a band for about three years, ever since Stone had some success with a different cover band and decided that he wanted to start his own, but one that dresses like superheroes. Just wearing capes and masks wasn’t enough for him, however — “I need-ed another edge to it,” he said. Then the space element came to him one day when he was in the shower.

“I wanted to do a space thing — a little science fiction,” Stone said. His fantastical tendencies are in reverence of old monster movies and comic books. “There’s noth-ing cooler than science fiction. Or superheroes. I love ‘em, so I put ‘em together.”

He worked to create the per-fect lineup, which he said involved searching out extroverted, talent-ed, funny individuals that under-stood that The Space Rockers were more about the performance than musicianship (“It’s not really about how great of a guitar solo I’m going to play,” he explained). After a lit-tle trial and error he found what he was looking for in his current band-mates, who have been with him for about a year. And their creation has paid off.

Stone, who plays with The Space Rockers for a living, said that the band plays an average of two to four shows a week — at everything from

clubs and corporate events to wed-dings and birthday parties — across the Southern United States (they just got back from playing a wedding in Pennsylvania). And they have shows booked throughout the rest of the year. There has been so much work that he started Stargazer Produc-tions, LLC in order to manage two additional show bands (The Video Stars and The Boogies) that each fill a particular niche.

But regardless of how busy busi-ness is, Stone said that The Space Rockers are his priority.

“The Space Rockers are like my baby,” Stone said. “They’re the band that started it all. Anywhere there’s a party and people need to start mov-ing and shaking it, we’ll be there.”

Chase Martinez | Daily Texan Staff

Space Rockers drummer Thunderstick performs at Speakeasy. The group is a cover band from Austin but think of themselves as superheroes who have come to Earth to ‘help bring the groove back.’

JAM continues from PAGE 12

The Speakeasy crowd dances to the Space Rockers. The Space Rockers play popular songs from the ‘80s and the ‘90s.

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spacejamAbout 100 people wander around Speakeasy

on Saturday night, ordering drinks and yelling conversation over the top-40 and hip-hop tracks that are blaring from the speakers, but all atten-tion turns to getting down on the dance floor when Captain Cosmos and his band of outer space superheroes take the stage.

“Hey, we’re The Space Rockers!” Captain Cos-mos yells at the pumped-up, tipsy people in the crowd. The band starts jamming energy-fueled covers of everything from “Pour Some Sugar on

Me” to “Apple Bottom Jeans” — complete with choreographed dance moves — and the wacky space story begins to make more sense.

The Space Rockers, a show band from Austin, play covers of hip-hop dance music at venues and events. But that’s not the answer they’ll give if someone asks them what’s up with the tenta-cle-like dreadlocks, the tight-fitting, color-coor-dinated superhero outfits and that invisible, talk-ing spaceship.

“We’re superheroes from outer space,” said Captain Cosmos, who goes by Cord Stone when he’s on Earth. “We’re all from different planets and we’re actually a famous band throughout the

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Space Rocker singer Stinger performs at Speakeasy. Space Rockers is a cover band from Austin that plays covers of hip-hop dance music.

Cover band uses unique theme to book gigs, entertain crowds